Joni Mitchell — People's Parties lyrics

Lyrics

All the people at this party
TheyЂ™ve got a lot of style
TheyЂ™ve got stamps of many countries
TheyЂ™ve got passport smiles
Some are friendly
Some are cutting
Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre
Giving to get something
Photo beauty gets attention
Then her eye paintЂ™s running down
SheЂ™s got a rose in her teeth
And a lampshade crown
One minute sheЂ™s so happy
Then sheЂ™s crying on someoneЂ™s knee
Saying laughing and crying
You know itЂ™s the same release
I told you when I met you
I was crazy
Cry for us all beauty
Cry for eddie in the corner
Thinking heЂ™s nobody
And jack behind his joker
And stone-cold grace behind her fan
And me in my frightened silence
Thinking I donЂ™t understand
I feel like IЂ™m sleeping
Can you wake me You seem to have a broader sensibility
IЂ™m just living on nerves and feelings
With a weak and a lazy mind
And coming to peoples parties
Fumbling deaf dumb and blind
I wish I had more sense of humor
Keeping the sadness at bay
Throwing the lightness on these things
Laughing it all away
Laughing it all away
Laughing it all away